LBeria
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« on: July 02, 2009, 05:32:28 AM » |
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For all my Brit friends....she was funny! LONDON (Reuters) – British actress Mollie Sugden, best-known for her role as Mrs Slocombe in the television comedy series "Are You Being Served?," has died at the age of 86.
Her agent Joan Reddin told newspapers Sugden died on Wednesday after a long illness. "She was a lovely, lovely person. She was a great professional," Reddin said.
With her hair highly coiffed and referring frequently to her "pussy," Sugden played the bossy Mrs Slocombe throughout the run of the BBC's innuendo-laden Are You Being Served? between 1972 and 1985.
Re-runs of the show in the United States in the 1990s gained her a new audience overseas.
"She was great fun, a very good actress, very versatile. She could play serious stuff and comedy," said Frank Thornton, who played opposite Sugden in the series as the stuffy floorwalker Captain Peacock.
"It was a very happy show to work on -- you can't play comedy with people you dislike," he told BBC television.
Mark Freeland, head of BBC comedy, said she was one of television's iconic funny women.
"Her daftly enormous purple rinse and never-to-be-forgotten catchphrase are the stuff of comedy legend," he said.
Sugden had also found success in the BBC TV comedy series "The Liver Birds" and played an occasional role as pub landlady Nellie Harvey in the long-running ITV soap opera "Coronation Street." |
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TripeHoundRedux
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« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2009, 05:33:36 AM » |
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Who's going to look after her pussy now?
RIP.
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2009, 05:35:55 AM » |
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Who's going to look after her pussy now?
I'm sure no one had seen it for decades. RIP. |
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Tyrant
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« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2009, 08:01:56 AM » |
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« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2009, 10:38:38 AM » |
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Weird to think Miss Brahms went before her though.  |
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« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2009, 11:14:39 AM » |
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Is it really necessary to post an R.I.P every time every person who has ever appeared in front of a camera, on a stage, or inside a recording studio, dies?
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« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2009, 11:42:32 AM » |
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There have always been RIP threads here. Its just the past week or so has seen a couple of famous and semi-famous people die.
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LBeria
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« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2009, 12:25:31 PM » |
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Is it really necessary to post an R.I.P every time every person who has ever appeared in front of a camera, on a stage, or inside a recording studio, dies?
No, but Ms. Sugden was on a long-running series in England that also gained a large fan-base here in the States. Just seemed fitting.... |
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« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2009, 02:36:05 PM » |
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Is it really necessary to post an R.I.P every time every person who has ever appeared in front of a camera, on a stage, or inside a recording studio, dies?
Yes. Although when Gale Storm died I only mentioned it in the middle of the "deaths in threes" argument in the "RIP Michael Jackson" thread. Bless her heart. She, Wendy Richards and John Inman gone. I imagine that the actor who played Mr. Grainger has passed (although you never know). |
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« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2009, 02:53:14 PM » |
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Is it really necessary to post an R.I.P every time every person who has ever appeared in front of a camera, on a stage, or inside a recording studio, dies?
Why not? Is the forum running out of space? |
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Tyrant
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« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2009, 03:55:08 PM » |
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Is it really necessary to post an R.I.P every time every person who has ever appeared in front of a camera, on a stage, or inside a recording studio, dies?
This is a film-themed site. It's only fitting. Though perhaps instead of creating new threads for each person who dies, maybe it would be better to have a RIP-exclusive thread? I dunno.... |
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